Sneak Peaks of 2023
Happy New Year!
Thank you so much for all your support! 🙏🏾 DJC has made some historic strides because of you and we would be NOTHING without you. Much love and gratitude. 🥰 ✊🏾
As a token of our appreciation, Die Jim Crow Records is bearing gifts today. 🤲🏾 🎁 ❤️ I have some exciting sneak peeks for you. 🤫
We have tons of music in various stages of post production. It's not shiny yet, but hopefully you'll see the vision. 🎤 🎼 (Keep in mind we are artists… and we’re sensitive about our shit 😩😭)
🙏🏾 " I S I T H O P E " - M I C H A E L A U S T I N x L I F E R S G R O O V E 🤲🏾
“Is It Hope" is the second single off the upcoming Lifers Groove EP. Lifers Groove is a band of five former lifers; including Simply Naomi and DJC Senior Advisor Maxwell Melvins.
Lifers Groove member Michael Austin served 27 years in prison for a murder he DID NOT commit. After being fully exonerated he's reintegrated into society successfully while pursuing a music career making beautiful, uplifting R&B.
“Is It Hope" is a rhythm & blues record about community, faith and love. It's a message and energy that is needed in our inner city communities desperately. Michael Austin never let the devastating experience of false imprisonment destroy his spirit and he's back sending love out to the world. Let's send him some back. 🥰 💙
🎬 " D A M N F O O L “ K E V I N W O O D L E Y x T E R R I T O R I A L
“Damn Fool” is the next lyric video from the critically acclaimed Territorial album Tlaxihuiqui. Named the most important album of 2021 by The Science Survey, Tlaxihuiqui’s “Damn Fool” takes a much needed breather over fingerstyle guitar as Kevin Woodley tells a lighthearted yet racially charged prison yard anecdote. 🎸
The “Damn Fool” lyric video is an exciting collaboration with incarcerated, Indigenous lifer and artist E. Brokencoyote, who has been a contributor for other Territorial visual elements. This video will be entirely animated with his drawings!
Help fund the creation of these lyric videos and others in the queue!
“ D A M O V E M E N T “ - T H E M A S S E S ✊🏾
As you might already know, The Masses are a ten-man hip hop group hailing from South Carolina. “Da Movement” is the first single off their upcoming album D.I.S. (Da Infinite Spectrum). The full album is not yet mixed and mastered, but as you can hear from the snippet above, The Masses are a refreshing, vintage, necessary voice in Hip Hop who actually have something to say‼️
This project features an incarcerated Co-Executive Producer; Silent Jungle, who not only made the beats on the project, but also has been able to provide key oversight from inside. The Masses will release the first group album recorded in a Southern prison, adding important perspectives to current narratives around incarceration and racial injustice.
Help fund Da Infinite Spectrum mixing and mastering!
🧚 “ F I G H T T O L I V E “ - B . A L E X I S 🧞♀️
B. Alexis is putting pressure on the rap girls with her second single “Fight to Live,” showing that Black Barbie isn’t a one-off. “Fight To Live” is about perseverance through the roughest of times. It has an honesty that only B. delivers time and time again. She doesn’t miss and we can’t wait until y’all get to hear her project 9th & Gasoline. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
The music video features beautiful drawings from Royal Young, who brings to life the inner world of B91 (our name for Black Barbie). 🤫
Help fund “Fight to Live” and other music videos that are in the process of being completed!
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Any donations made to these projects will go strictly to these forms of programming. Please consider taking part in amplifying these artists. We also have monthly pledges available.
I hope you appreciated the sneak peek. Talk to you soon ✨️ 💕 We love y'all. ❤️ 💯